 "The Perfect Product" | 2008-03-27 |
| - Reviewed By kyscots3 |
| for cleaning snap, crackle and pops from your recordings. With just minimal adjustments, I was able to remove all of the above from old and battered 33s and 78s that I transfer to CD using my beloved ION TTUSB turntable. These two products are the best money I've ever spent to save my favorite music. Unbeatable! |
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 "Beware of faulty product activation process" | 2007-12-10 |
| - Reviewed By kbiglione |
This may be a fine product. It appears to do exactly what I need. Unfortunately, I'm not able to launch the application. After buying direct from the Bias website on a Sunday afternoon (could have saved $50 buying form Amazon, but I'm on deadline for a project) I am unable to authorize my legally purchased software. The application crashes during the authorization process. Since the software won't run without authorization, I'm out of luck.
I've contacted tech support and submitted an email authorization request. I received an automatic response warning me that it may be 1 to 2 business days before I hear back from Bias. I might as well have ordered from Amazon.
To be honest, if I had known that SoundSoap used this sort of software authorization scheme I probably wouldn't have purchased the product. This sort of restrictive DRM almost always harms legitimate consumers while doing nothing to stop piracy.
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| "DISAPPOIINTED" | 2007-12-04 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2BBN11C77VWEU |
| Expensive program with almost no features other than what it says it does. Poor instructions on usage. I have had two months and have yet been unable to successfully utilize. |
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| "SoundSoap 2 a Handy Addition to a DSP Toolkit" | 2007-10-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2Z52WCK0IA6Q2 |
The SoundSoap 2 software (running on my older Mac) is a neat tool to go with BIAS's Peak recording software. It works quite well in dealing with my albums (33 rpm records, licorice pizza, stacks o' wax, etc.) and the pops, clicks, and scratches that sometimes came on a brand new vinyl LP. You should take a tour of the BIAS website and watch / listen to the demo they have for SoundSoap. It will do all that, but it is possible to overdo the signal processing and swamp out some of the music content. However, that can be the case with other click repair software too. The best approach I've found is not to try to create a 'master recording' with studio like audio qualities, but instead focus on cleaning up an obnoxious record or cassette.
SS's 'learn noise' feature is dead handy, and the 50/60 cycle buzz remover works great. Best of all is being able to keep your master digital recording (mine done through BIAS Peak LE) and play with the settings in SoundSoap. Too little click removal? Too much removal of crackles and the music suffers? Delete the file and try again. A very easy to use, effective, and affordable tool for the music lover who's facing a stack of wax unplayed for years. I breathed new life into Moody Blues 'Days of Future Passed' and Horst Jankowski's 'Walk in the Black Forest.' Next up, the overplayed and abused vinyl of The Doors. I wonder how that will turn out...?BIAS SoundSoap 2 ( Windows/Macintosh )Bias SoundSoap 2, Hybrid CD Win/MacBIAS SoundSoap 2 ( Windows/Macintosh ) |
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 "An interesting tool." | 2007-06-02 |
| - Reviewed By cool_avenger111 |
I saw the demo of the program and thought, "That's exactly what I need!". I have been working on the post side of a movie Quest for the Golden Rod for over a year now (...) and due to the actors spreading to the four winds I'm stuck with the audio I got from my Sennheiser MKE-300. Which isn't bad, but not great eithor. I was forced to use it both in doors and outside having little "problems" like airplans, TOO LOUD of a river bank and of course the ever famous electronic hum (fridges). So I crossed my fingers and dropped $90 on this tool, plugged it into Adobe Premeir Pro 2.0 and was amazed that it was VERY simular to the results one would expect from a standard Noise Gate feature. Then I watched the online tutorials and learned the magical way of "learn sound" and that helped. I mean it was kind of remarkable it would remove very specific frequences and would behind only the voice (if you desired it). But here in lies it's flaw. DISTORTION. The more noise removal the quiter the audio gets and the more "canny" (that's how I put it) the voice becomes. Still legable and clear, but very distorted. So if you are doing a documentary then A++ if you are doing a film let's hope the background audio you are trieing to remove isn't too bad. Works best against repetitive back ground noise like humming. Very little distortion there.
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| "BIAS SoundSoap 2" | 2007-05-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: AV2DIKUI2UB8G |
BIAS SoundSoap 2 its all that its crack up to be!
In other words ITS GREAT!!!
Roland Allen |
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| "Great way to enhance your hobby" | 2007-03-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1ZJFCHVWMLQWN |
| After having a few problems registering the product over the Internet due to my computer's firewall, the product has performed flawlessly. It does take a little time to learn how to use it to it's fullest potential since the documentation is a little thin on information. Overall though, it is a great product. |
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| "SoundSoap is excellent help in digitizing you LP collection" | 2007-03-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2P9U0NJNYGST |
Do you have a stack of LPs sitting in the storage that you never play anymore? You might choose to digitize them.
Everyone creates their own process to do this. I combined the Ion USB turntable, Toast Titanium, a nice inexpensive audio application called Sound Studio and SoundSoap 2 to create my process.
I first had to question the expense of digitizing LPs vs buying CDs or digital music and, foremost, I wondered if I could expect that digitizing LPs would produce good results at all?
I think, if you have a lot of LP's, and the time.... that it is worth the cost to buy what you need to do the digitizing. Some of your LPs will have problems that are commonly referred to as "pops" and "clicks". SoundSoap does an excellent job of removing these artifacts. SoundSoap can turn a good to very good recording into near mint.
Through studio head phones I compared the results of a SoundSoap scrubbed record selection to the same commercial CD selection. I could hear very little difference. Without head phones, just listening like you normally would... I assure you that you are not going to be able to tell any difference.
I also used Sound Soap on many 78s, some that are in rough shape with surface noise as well as pops and clicks. SoundSoap helped to clean them without leaving behind the "digital" artifacts or "metallic" sound that I heard using other software.
Sound Soap is also easy to use and you'll shortly get the hang of it without resorting to the manual.
My one suggestion to make SoundSoap more versatile would be to add an export option to MP3. The "save as" selections are WAV AIFF and SDII. |
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| "ease-of-use lives up to billing" | 2007-01-16 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2S8E93Q3KQ8D3 |
| I've been using SoundSoap 2 to clean up analog-to-digital conversions of my LP collection... it really is easy to use once you've watched the video to learn the basics. The thing it doesn't do stand-alone (since it's designed as a plug-in to other systems) is split a file into pieces (i.e. splitting a side of an LP into songs). I've been using a freeware tool from Exact Audio Copy that does a nice job of that... and my vinyl has never sounded so good. |
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| "Groooovy Magic" | 2005-06-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: AVRM73MM1NY9I |
| Holy cow. I've used other filters to clean music, and for this price, I expected a "decent" job. SoundSoap 2 delivered awesome results with the most simple operation--the Learn Noise button. I'm a multi-track artist and had transferred old "open-reel" recordings to minidisc and then CD, in order to archive them. I was not happy with the hiss from older recordings when converting to MP3s. SoundSoap brought these recordings back to life-virtually eliminating the hiss and noise! It even made them "sparkle." And the less I messed with the settings, the better it came out. Downside is that it can't directly save MP3s, but no biggie--use Audacity (free on the Web) or iTunes to then convert your files. Nice job, Bias! |
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